Jim Blandy <jimb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Okay, "all the data" is overstating it. What I was trying to say is
> that almost every system will end up having facilities for converting
> to and from the C execution character set anyway, independent of the
> SRFI, so having the SRFI require it will rarely be an additional
> burden.
Well I agree with the substantial matter: that it's rarely an
additional burden; moreover, when it is an additional burden, it's not
a very big one. (That is, in the systems I contemplate, there are a
jillion conversion functions *anyway* for a bunch of external codings,
and one of them is certainly ASCII, etc.)
Thomas